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12-09-2008, 08:19 AM
By DONNA CASSATA
Associated Press
December 9, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush Doctrine is getting a full-throated defense -- from its namesake.
President George W. Bush spelled out the policy of pre-emptive military action six years ago at West Point and he was to return to the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday to focus on a strategy derided by White House critics as an abject failure.
Historians certainly will have a say on Bush's two terms in office, but in the remaining days of his tenure, the president is trying to shape his legacy.
It was at West Point on June 1, 2002, that Bush evoked the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and Gen. George C. Marshall's words about the United States as a symbol of freedom and power as he described a new, robust military policy.
More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/december/1209_bush_legacy.sht ml)
Associated Press
December 9, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush Doctrine is getting a full-throated defense -- from its namesake.
President George W. Bush spelled out the policy of pre-emptive military action six years ago at West Point and he was to return to the U.S. Military Academy on Tuesday to focus on a strategy derided by White House critics as an abject failure.
Historians certainly will have a say on Bush's two terms in office, but in the remaining days of his tenure, the president is trying to shape his legacy.
It was at West Point on June 1, 2002, that Bush evoked the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and Gen. George C. Marshall's words about the United States as a symbol of freedom and power as he described a new, robust military policy.
More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/december/1209_bush_legacy.sht ml)